Category: General
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Finding yourself
This past weekend my wife’s family had a reunion. We drove out to the mountains and stayed in some cabins out in pretty much the middle of nowhere. It wasn’t really rouging it, but it was a good deal of fun! One of the things I had the opportunity to do was late Friday…
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Pandora music delays?!
So has anyone else been having trouble with Pandora.com lately? I love the ability to pick the music that I listen to and also not having to listen to commercials, but this week it sometimes seems like it takes a couple of minutes after a song ends before it starts another (sometimes it just sits…
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“Whale Done!” – A great read!
Whale Done! A book about the power of positive relationships by Ken Blanchard (and others) is a great book. I read it a few years ago, and remembered it being great, so for Christmas it was on my list of books I’d like to own and read again. I did get it, and this week…
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Why Todo Lists Work (A simple example)
I work as a programmer in an IT company. My job consists of lots of little things that I need to do each day. Usually they add up to a large project that I am working to complete. Last week our company sponsored a conference here in town and we had a whole bunch of…
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Perspective is king
So I graduated in April, and started full time work. It has been tough working for 8 hours a day. My work is very flexible in what times I need to work, and I started with the best intentions of getting in early and leaving early. Well it has been really really difficult to keep…
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RescueTime – What do you do with your computer time?
Well, a few weeks back I found a program called RescueTime. Cleaning out my RSS feeds today I found that JD at Get Rich Slowly had a similar post earlier this month discussing this program. I decided that I wanted to chime in myself. What this program does, is run on your computer in the…
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Faster Gmail Loads
So today when I logged into gmail I noticed something – for one thing it didn’t just say “Loading…” it said “Loading XXXXX@gmail.com…” – AND it loaded faster – or seemed to. I thought well maybe it was just a figment of my imagination because I was reading the loading thing and didn’t notice the…
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Well not a bad day…
Ok, so first of all I didn’t get all of my goals accomplished today. It really was a pretty good day until I started to write this post. I then got a phone call from a previous project manager – for a project I have yet to be paid. The project was a terrible one…
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Crazy Couple of Weeks
OK, so it has been crazy the last 2 weeks. I’ll give a quick recap of what has gone on and hopefully things will get back to normal soon. First of all, we moved to our new house. We are still renting currently, but hey, its a house, not an apartment – pretty exciting! Next,…